Laundering-iron heater.



No. 678,l65. Patented July 9, l90l.

H CBUEGER LAUNDEBING IRON HEATER.

(Application filed Nov. 6, 1900.

(No man.)

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l V I Jlflm-gzys UNITED S ATE-s PAT NT OFFICE.

HERMANN CRUEGER, OF ROAN'OKE, VIRGINIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO MARCELLUS N. MOORMAN, J R., AND .ED. PUROELL, J R., OF SAME PLACE.

LAUINDE'RIVNVG-JBON HEATER.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters lfatent No. 678,165, dated. July 9, 1901. Application filed November 6, i900. Serial No. 35,628. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERMANN CRUEGER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Roanoke, in the county of Roanoke and State of Virginia, have invented a new and useful Laundering-Iron I-Ieater, of which the follow ing is a specification. a This invention relates to heating devices,

and has for its object to provide an improvedand arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, it being understood that changes in the form, proportion,

size, and minor details may be made within the scope of the claims-withoutdeparting from the spirit or sacrificing any of the ad vantages of the invention.

In the drawings, Figure l is a'perspective 0 View of a heating device constructed in ac- V cordance with the present invention. Fig. 2

is a central longitudinal sectional view thereof. Fig. 3 is a detail plan view of the blank from which the outer section of the device is formed.

Like characters of reference'designate corresponding parts in all of the figures of the drawings.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates an 40 internal drum, the sides of which converge upwardly, said drum. being open at opposite ends. Secured to the bottom of the drum is an enlarged. base in the form of a pendent flange 2, which is designed to rest upon the 5 top of an oil or gas stove and to surround the flame thereof, so that the heat will rise through the drum. The upper smaller end of the device is provided with any suitable ornamental marginal flange 3 and a plurality of transverse cross-bars 4 to form a rack for the'support of an iron or other device to be heated.

device. the packingare formed from blanks similar to the one shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings,

An outer drum 5 embraces the inner drum,

tween the two drums or sections, so as to 55 prevent'radiation of the heat, and thereby confine the same as much as possible within thecombined drums or body of the heating The inner and outer drums and also which illustrates the blank of the outer drum or section. The outer and longer marginal edge'ofthe blank is divided into a plurality of angularly related sections, varying in number according to the number of the sides of the drum, andtheinner edge of the substantially segmental blankis provided with shorter corresponding parallel edge-sections.

Th eblank is then bent along the respective lines connecting the-corresponding vertexes in the opposite edges of the blank, as indicated by the respective dotted lines 6, after which the opposite marginal end edges 7 are connected in any suitable manner so as to form a pyramidal drum, shown in the draw-' .ings as having four sides; but it will be understood that-any number of sides may be provided. Each section of the'blank is provided with a tongue 8, cut from the center of the sectionand tapering toward the top edge or shorter edge of the blank. The outer ends of these tongues are out off at'about the respective dotted lines 9 and then .bent laterally outward, as at 10, so as to form ironsupporting flanges or shoulders at the bases of the'openings formed-in the sides of the outer drum by the bending outwardly of the tongues. v

I By the present formation of the iron-supo porting flanges aportion of each side of the inner drum is exposed bythe openings in the outer drum, as the lining or filling is provided with openings corresponding to the openings in the outer drum. It willlof course be understood that the inner drum is not provided with openings, but is imperforat-e. Thus when a laundering-iron 11 is supported upon one of the flanges 10, as shown in Fig. 2, the bottom of the body of the iron will rest I00 in an inclined position directly against the exposed portion of the inner drum, whereby the iron will become quickly heated. By this arrangement only a small portion of the in nor drum is exposed for radiating purposes to heat the irons, while the intermediate portions of the said inner drum are covered by the packing and the outer drum, so as to prevent radiation of the heat in such places as are not exposed for the support of an iron. Moreover, the marginal flanges provided by the edges of the openings serve to prevent accidental lateral displacement of the irons when applied to the device.

In order that access may be conveniently had to the flame of the stove to which the device may be applied, the combined drums or body portion thereof has one lower edge connected to the base by means of a suitable hinge 12, so that the body may be swung backwardly to uncover the open upper side of the skeleton base. Asuitable spring-catch 13 is employed to normally secure the free side of the drum against the base, so as to prevent accidental tilting or upsetting of the said drum or body.

Located within the body of the device and suspended from the cross-bars 4 is a heat-deflecting bell 14, as shown in Fig. 2 of thedrawings, which is designed to prevent the direct escape of the heat by deflecting the same downwardly and then outwardly at the sides of the bell, thereby confining the heat as much as possible within the drum, so as to increase the heating effect thereof. The edges of the drums are connected by rivets, and the openings in the outer drum are also surrounded by rivets, so as to stiffen and strengthen the completed drum, to hold the heat-non-conducting filling in place, and to prevent the edges of the openings from be ing bulged outwardly by the heat.

For convenience in handling the device there is provided the opposite swinging hane dles 15, which are applied to opposite sides of the base, and the latter is also provided with a damper or slidable draft-regulator 16, preferably provided in the front of the base or at the catch side of the drum, so that it may be in convenient position for adjustment.

hat is claimed is-- 1. A laundering-iron heater, comprising a marginal base, and an open-ended pyramidal drum hinged to and supported upon the upper edge of the base, said drum comprising inner and outer shells, and a heat-non-conducting filling between the shells, the sides of the outer shell and the filling having corre sponding openings to expose the inner shell for engagement by an iron, and iron-supporting ledges or flanges projecting laterally outward at the bottom edges of the respective openings in the outer shell.

2. A laundering-iron heater, comprising a marginal base, and an open-ended pyramidal drum removably supported upon the upper edge of the base, and formed by an inner shell, an outer shell that is bent from a single blank of sheet metal, having portions cut out of each side of the shell to form openings therein, and said cut-out portions being bent laterally outward into iron-supporting ledges or flanges at the bottom edges of the respective openings, and a heat-non-conducting filling between the shells and having openings formed therein corresponding to the openings in the outer shell to expose portions of the inner shell.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

IIERMANN CRUEGER.

Witnesses:

E. J. ROWAN, CLAYTON W. Noun. 

